{"id":996566,"date":"2026-03-06T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996566"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:26:57","slug":"amazon-layoff-march-2026-100-employees-from-robotics-fired-company-says-difficult-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/amazon-layoff-march-2026-100-employees-from-robotics-fired-company-says-difficult-but-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon layoff March 2026: 100 employees from Robotics fired, company says \u2018difficult but necessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest round of layoffs, Amazon has fired more than 100 employees from its robotics division as part of the company\u2019s ongoing cost-cutting and restructuring efforts. The cuts primarily affect white-collar roles in the unit responsible for designing and building warehouse automation systems. <\/p>\n<p>The company has shelved the Blue Jay project \u2013 a ceiling-mounted robot system introduced in October for same-day delivery warehouses \u2013 due to high costs, manufacturing difficulties, and challenges during real-world testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest round of layoffs, Amazon has fired more than 100 employees from its robotics division as part of the company\u2019s ongoing cost-cutting and restructuring efforts. The cuts primarily affect white-collar roles in the unit responsible for designing and building warehouse automation systems. The company has shelved the Blue Jay project \u2013 a ceiling-mounted robot system introduced in October for same-day delivery warehouses \u2013 due to high costs, manufacturing difficulties, and challenges during real-world testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}